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...Steve is there, leaning against the glass wall of the T station. His shoulders slope; he holds his arms folded across his chest; his blond hair pokes out from under his backward baseball cap. He smiles, goofy, shy, maybe sheepish, when he sees Beth. Beth grins and grins. Carrie stands off to the side, crossing her legs and putting one All-star sneaker on top of the other. Beth and Steve talk for a good seven minutes. They hug. Beth moves over to Carrie; they stand conferring. Steve turns his back to them to talk to his friends. The girls...
Life is good. My older brother and I grew up in Park Slope playing whiffle ball on President Street after school, thriving under the tutelage of Coach Dad in the local Catholic Little League and muscling our way through...
What makes the conversation tricky is that we're already on the slippery slope. Doctors can screen fetuses for genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy; one day they may be able to treat them in utero. But correcting is one thing, perfecting is another. If doctors can someday tinker with a gene to help children with autism, what's to prevent them from tinkering with other genes to make "normal" children smarter? Technology always adapts to demand; prenatal sex-selection tests designed to weed out inherited diseases that strike one gender or the other--hemophilia, for instance...
...excluding volatile food and energy prices). The morning news sparked a comfortable little rally based on a comfortable little assumption: When the Fed meets on August 24, Alan Greenspan will nudge up interest rates by a quarter point, and just a quarter point. "If you look at the general slope of the numbers, it?s apparent that inflation pressures are picking up a little," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "It?s not out of control, but it gives the Fed a good opportunity to move...
Query declined to be interviewed, but her attorney, Margaret Anderson of Vero Beach, Fla., sees the case as one of attempted "child snatching" by Kazmierazak, whom she refers to as Query's "roommate." Anderson adds, "I see the case as being a slippery slope. Does someone who loves my child and helps with the care have custody rights? How can you have a baby-sitter or nanny in your home when you're out working 40 to 60 hours a week? Women are not going to allow people to love their child if they have to be wary...